GenesisCare at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney treats first patients with Elekta Unity MR-Linac
SYDNEY, Australia, July 22, 2020 – Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) announced today that the GenesisCare oncology center at St. Vincent’s Hospital (Sydney, New South Wales) has started treating patients with Elekta Unity, a radiation therapy system that allows doctors to see a tumor’s movements and its exact position during the delivery of therapeutic radiation. St. Vincent’s is the first site of 21 eventual Elekta Unity installations in GenesisCare’s global network to initiate clinical use of the system. In early July the first patient, a 63-year-old man, received treatment for prostate cancer. Since